Donald A Downs

Cornell '69

Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend-and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780801478383
• ISBN-10: 0801478383
• Artikelnr.: 36125814

Autorenporträt

DONALD ALEXANDER DOWNS, an undergraduate at Cornell during the uprising, is the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science, Law, and Journalism and the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His other books include More than Victims and Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the 2012 Paperback Edition1. Overview of the CrisisPart I. The
Road to Straight
2. Student Militancy
3. The Rise of Racial Politics
4. Racial Justice versus Academic Freedom
5. Separation or Integration?
6. Progress or Impasse?
7. Liberal Justice or RacismPart II. The Straight Crisis
8. Day 1: The Takeover and the Arming of the Campus
9. Day 2: The Deal
10. Day 3: A "Revolutionary Situation"
11. Day 4: Student Power
12. Day 5: A New OrderPart III. The Aftermath
13. Reform, Reaction, and Resignation
14. Cornell and the Failure of LiberalismChronology
Participants
Notes
Index